Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Created by Aaron Ruben, this CBS sitcom ran for five seasons and 150 episodes. Jim Nabors plays Gomer Pyle, a good-natured attendant from Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the Marine Corps. Frank Sutton co-stars as the short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, with Ronnie Schell as Gomer's friend Duke Slater. The show focused on Gomer and Carter's relationship and never addressed the Vietnam War.